Pictures of the Day 7/1/25 - Highway 550 Durango to Ouray

                                            Old mine along the route to Ouray, Colorado (KW)

Red Mountain (11,654') is prominent along the route. There are a lot of iron deposits making it a reddish color. (KW)

More mines along the way (KW) 

Highway 550, the "Million Dollar Highway", gets pretty narrow as you approach Ouray.  No guard rails for the weak-hearted! When it was first built from Ouray to Silverton by Otto Mears in 1883, it was calculated to be constructed on at least a million dollars worth of gold and silver at the time. (KW)